by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Naomi Osaka, preparing to compete in her first tennis tournament since the Tokyo Olympics, briefly took a break during a pre-tournament news conference on Monday after she started crying. The Western & Southern Open news conference in Mason, Ohio, began with Osaka...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Donned in a loose-fitting gray tee, her hair in pigtails, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the athletic superstar otherwise known as “Pocket Rocket” (or “Mommy Rocket” since the birth of her son) welcomes me into her home, on the other side of a Zoom screen. At 9am, I could...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The tennis star Naomi Osaka has announced that she will donate prize earnings from her next tournament to support relief efforts in Haiti, where a 7.2 magnitude earthquake killed at least 1,297 people over the weekend and injured more than 5,700. Osaka, who is of...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Carli Lloyd, a star with the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, announced her retirement on Monday, ending her storied career as one of the most dominant players in her sport. Lloyd, 39, won two World Cups and was the second-most capped player in world soccer...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
WNBA star A’ja Wilson never dreamed of playing professional ball. In fact, having a parent who put in 10 seasons in overseas leagues meant that a young Wilson was pointedly disinterested in stepping onto the court. She wanted to craft her own legacy, one that didn’t...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
In the months following the 2020 WNBA season focused on social justice, Amalgamated Bank reached out to the WNBA Players Association with a clear message historically atypical for a women’s league: We support your players, we salute them and we want to talk...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Breanna Stewart felt a bit clumsy when WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert tossed up the ceremonial opening tip of the first-ever Commissioner’s Cup on Thursday night in Phoenix. The arc of the ball wasn’t the same as it might have been from a referee, and seemingly...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Alex Morgan was just seven years old when the 1996 Olympics took place in Atlanta. She watched Michelle Akers and Julie Foudy lead the US to the first-ever Olympic gold in women’s soccer, in front of 80,000 electrified fans. Foudy would not know of Morgan – now one of...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Las Vegas center Liz Cambage said she thinks not playing in the Olympics essentially saved the rest of her WNBA season for the Aces. “I had no idea how exhausted, stressed and broken I was,” Cambage said Sunday after the Aces’ 84-83 comeback win over...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Megan Rapinoe would like you to stop asking when she’s going to retire. When the U.S. women’s soccer team fell to Canada at the Olympics, a shocking upset for a team that has come to dominate the sport, journalists descended on the 36-year-old forward, pressing her...
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